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Re: Master Cylinder sleeving (dual bore)

To: conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Master Cylinder sleeving (dual bore)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:56:15 EST
In a message dated 3/16/00 7:07:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com writes:

<< >>When I bench bled my MC, in my very small garage, I had the thing 
mounted in
 >>the vise.  Filled it and pushed in the pushrod.  Well, brake fluid shot out
 >>the holes all over the door of my Midget!
 
   Saw a neat trick in my Mustang magazine just t'other day...
   Take two short pieces of spare brake line with fittings and screw them
 into the output holes of the master cylinder.
   Curve the free end up and over to feed back into the reservoir.  Make it
 long enough that the free end reaches below the level of the fluid.
   When you bleed the (already clean) master cylinder you can watch the
 bubbles in the reservoir, AND you don't have to keep refilling. >>

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Not being a British Car mechanic by trade, I don't do this very often.  
Experience is the greatest teacher.  NOW I know better!  The recycle thing 
does sound like a neat idea.  I hope all you newbies are listening.

Allen Hefner
SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport

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